How To Install oasis on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install oasis on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is oasis
oasis is:
OASIS generates a full configure, build and install system for your application. It starts with a simple
_oasisfile at the toplevel of your project and creates everything required.
It uses external tools like OCamlbuild and it can be considered as the glue between various subsystems that do the job. It should support the following tools:
- OCamlbuild
- OMake (todo)
- OCamlMakefile (todo),
- ocaml-autoconf (todo)
It also features a do-it-yourself command line invocation and an internal configure/install scheme. Libraries are managed through findlib. It has been tested on GNU Linux and Windows.
OASIS supports standard entry points and descriptions. It helps to integrates your libraries and software with third parties tools like GODI.
This package contains command-line tools.
There are three methods to install oasis on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install oasis Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install oasis using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install oasis
Install oasis Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install oasis using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install oasis
Install oasis Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install oasis using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install oasis
How To Uninstall oasis on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the oasis package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove oasis
Uninstall oasis And Its Dependencies
To uninstall oasis and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove oasis
Remove oasis Configurations and Data
To remove oasis configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge oasis
Remove oasis configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove oasis configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oasis
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install oasis package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
